The University at Albany players know who they need to stop to be successful on Wednesday against UMBC.

Some in the Capital District may even remembers the name Chris De La Rosa.

De La Rosa played his freshman season at Siena College, and played in the 2008 NCAA Tournament against Vanderbilt and Villanova.

This season, De La Rosa is really playing well for the Retrievers, who are just 3-17 overall, but have won two of their last three games.

The 5-10 junior guard is averaging 17.0 points, 6.3 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game.

He leads the team in scoring and assists and is second behind forward Justin Fry in rebounds.

De La Rosa is second in the America East Conference in scoring, behind just Boston University star John Holland (19.2 ppg).

De La Rosa was just honored by the America East the player of the week, after averaging 17.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.5 assists in three games last week.

I had a chance to ask Siena coach Mitch Buonaguro about De La Rosa Tuesday afternoon.

"He's a talented player," Buonaguro said.